Articles: EAM

A Vision of Enterprise Reliability

Looking Into the Future of the Industry

What is the ultimate vision for enterprise reliability?  If you’re like me, occasionally you find yourself drifting off into a day dream.  One of the recurring day dreams I’ve been having for the last 10 years involves this question.  I often lapse into deep thought, pondering, “How is all of this reliability and maintenance stuff supposed to work?

Bring the Smart Grid Within the Four Walls of Your Operation

The electric grid, as we know it, can’t keep up. It’s increasingly unreliable, costly to maintain and deliver electricity, vulnerable to attack, and environmentally unsound.

Calibration Management and your ERP: have the best of both worlds

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

With recent pressures to improve information flow and collaboration driving consolidation of activity through ERP systems, companies have struggled with questions about what they are willing to compromise in order to achieve this harmonization.

CMMS Software Work Order Coding

This article provides guidelines on the selection and structure of the codes and categories that CMMS Software work order systems use to filter and sort backlogs of work.

Connecting Reliability to EAM

By Ricky Smith, CMRP, Ivara Corporation

Most companies that I have visited claim to have no link between equipment reliability and their EAM system. I believe it is very important to link the two. The goal of those involved in equipment reliability should be asset performance, and EAM’s were not built to help with that objective.

EAM – Right from the Start

This presentation was originally delivered at EAM-2008 Enterprise Asset Management Summit. Click here for future dates and locations

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” - Colin Powell, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93)

Master Records are Not Optional - Get the Detail Work Behind You

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

In the United States alone there is a $738 billion dollar potential annual benefit from improved asset reliability (calculated from Department of Commerce current-cost net stock of private fixed assets in 2003 (total $4.9 trillion)).

Modernizing and Consolidating EAM Applications

Asset Intensive Organizations, mainly in Energy (Power, Utilities, Oil and Gas) sector, are in process of consolidating their Asset Management software solutions to achieve more with less number of applications or instances. These organizations have traditionally been using multiple EAM packages or older versions due to various reasons – new acquisitions, technology limitations, applications capability, geographical spread, lack of synergy among business units etc.

Morey’s Piers Vaults into 21st Century Maintenance Technology

By Pat Smith and Michael Stone

Morey’s Piers implemented TabWare EFX from AssetPoint in the spring of 2007 to replace an older CMMS they had in place for 10 years that did not have sufficient functionality to support their current and planned operations, address their maintenance program improvements and to convert manual inspection documents, logs and checklists to a central automated system.

Reliability Centered Maintenance Meets Enterprise Asset Management – Avoiding the Disconnect

Ever wonder why there is such a huge disconnect between your CMMS/EAM Software vendor and the reliability and maintenance work that actually takes place on the plant floor?

Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to a major Enterprise Asset Management vendor event. The event included product managers, programmers, implementation specialists, marketing staff and trainers. They were seeking answers to what the future held for maintaining physical assets and I guessed that is why they invited me. There were no clients or users at this meeting.

Serving up EAM Integration

Integration is a word that strikes fear in many information technology (IT) organizations. There is no question that integrating systems has created major havoc within enterprises, and gluing together disparate mission-critical business systems from multiple vendors that were never designed to work together is definitely a cause for IT concern.

Successfully Implementing “Best Practices” and EAM

The “Top-7“ Critical Pitfalls to Avoid

Each year companies spend “thousands to sometimes millions” of dollars on a new EAM system only to find that one to two years down the road after implementation, they have no better data than what they previously had and find themselves using less than twenty-five percent of the capabilities of the new software.

The Golden Age of Enterprise Asset Management

As an engineer I’ve been involved in maintenance and asset management for almost 20-years. I’ve been particularly close to the area of Enterprise Asset Management systems and technology for over 10-years. Over that time I’ve continued to have high hopes for a truly workable set of enterprise technologies and organizational commitment that would come together to really help take maintenance and asset management to the next level as a strategic function within industrial companies. I’m the eternal optimist. However, I’ve been disappointed in the past by technology and strategy. In many cases I’ve had a sense that the marketing got ahead of execution. I’m sure this will resonate with many readers.